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Obol Svicca Type
| Issuer | Kingdom of Noricum |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Weight | 0.54 g |
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| Obverse description | Ram's head facing left in high relief, rendered in the schematised Celtic artistic tradition. A pellet-tipped appendage, likely representing a horn or ear, projects from the upper right of the head. To the left of the head, a cluster of raised pellets arranged in a triangular formation occupies the field, with an additional pellet above. The design is boldly executed with characteristic Celtic abstraction, the facial features reduced to a prominent curving muzzle and a rounded eye socket. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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Noricum, the Celtic kingdom occupying roughly modern Austria and parts of Slovenia, was unusual among Iron Age polities for developing a sophisticated indigenous coinage tradition rather than simply imitating Greek or Roman types wholesale. These small silver fractions circulated alongside the larger Norican staters in a functioning, multi-denomination economy — evidence that trade in the region was granular enough to demand small change. The kingdom maintained enough political cohesion to sustain this currency until Roman annexation in 15 BC effectively ended autonomous Norican minting.